Moe Lane's Blog, page 765
February 22, 2021
Finally finished CYBERPUNK 2077 (B+).
Overall: CYBERPUNK 2077 is a good concept and a good game, but it needed a bit more quality control work before release. I’m not being facetious, by the way: I know that the console versions were disastrous. But since I bought it for PC (and made sure I had a machine that could run it), I’m pretty much shrugging that off.
I’m not really going to apologize for taking the PC Master Race position here, either. Cyberpunk 2077 still needs a bit more long-term stability on the PC (and the release of whatever DLC was planned) before the modders can get their hands on it. But once the modders do get going this game has tons of places to insert missions, vignettes, and entire campaigns. The long-term playability of this game is going to be in the ability of people to mod it, I think. And there’s a bunch of stuff they can do there.
Strengths: I liked Johnny. He was fun to run around with, made me not feel the lack of companions for most of this game. Good stories generally, fun quest lines, NPCs I liked interacting with. Once you get the hang of motorcycles it’s just fun to drive around Night City at 1 AM, which is totally one of the things I wanted to do in a cyberpunk game. And the game is wicked funny in a lot of places. Listen to the conversations around you.
Complaints: hard to reach level 50 before the endgame, pretty much impossible to get all of the cars (which stay on your damn map until you buy them), the aforementioned unfinished QA work. Quickhacks are extremely powerful at endgame, but you’ll pick six and just use those. I’d like more radiant quests and I hope the DLC raises the level cap to 60. Oh, and there’s got to be a better way to fast-level your Athletics skill besides punching the damn walls.
All in all, upgrade your PC and buy the game. Don’t bother getting it for the console until they fix it – and fix how you console folks handle mods, which is a general industry-wide problem and not one I can advise you on. And keep your hotfixes current!
Tweet of the Day, It Is To Laugh edition.
It’s laugh, or cry.
"We've been saying that for 45 years! HA HA HA HA HA!" – Statler & Waldorf https://t.co/hxDC8lBYsH
— Space Lazar Wolf (@NathanWurtzel) February 22, 2021
Mostly laugh, because this is freaking ridiculous.
February 21, 2021
Day 1, Fulfilling the TALES FROM THE FERMI RESOLUTION Kickstarter.
Today was a day of getting rid of obstacles, mostly. The printer heads needed to be cleaned, in order to print out the shipping labels; and supplies to wrap the books and tape the packages needed to be acquired. But all the postage is bought and all the books are signed. I have about fifty or so packages to prepare, and I am hoping that I can do it all tomorrow. HOPING, not quite expecting. But the books should start going out early this week.
Huzzah!
Moe Lane
PS: The pre-order store for TALES FROM THE FERMI RESOLUTION is now closed. If you want a print book, I’m afraid you’ll have to order it from Amazon.
ARMY OF THE DEAD gets a release date.
May 21. ARMY OF THE DEAD is gonna be a Netflix release: if the picture below isn’t obvious, it’s a heist flick set in the middle of a zombie apocalypse. Which is possibly when you want to have one, right? Assuming all of humanity doesn’t get eaten, eventually gold at least is gonna be valuable again. Gold, jewels, jewelry, even some fine art… there’s stuff worth stealing, even at the end of the world.
Survivors take all. #ArmyOfTheDead on @Netflix May 21.
— Zack Snyder (@ZackSnyder) February 21, 2021
Teaser this Thursday. pic.twitter.com/sIgDoz6rmz
Via Sonny, who sums it up for me:
“It’s a Zack Snyder zombie heist movie” is the sort of elevator pitch that gets an instant green light. https://t.co/WhOZLCeM7H
— Sonny Bunch (@SonnyBunch) February 21, 2021
Admittedly I’m warming up to the idea. I wasn’t as sure before, but the appeal of this flick is growing on me.
Patreon Microfiction: “Super Mega-Zoom Call Activate!”
Although I dunno how well this works in real life. Assume “Super Mega-Zoom Call Activate!” exists in a world where the participants wouldn’t immediately start arguing with each other. And, sure, superpowers! Their existence wouldn’t be any less plausible, honestly.
Patreon!February 20, 2021
Early night.
I was perpetually on the verge of dozing off during the Saturday game, which might have been from being right next to the vent but was probably because I’m tired as heck. Not enough sleep, etc, etc, etc. So a quick music video choice and then it’s off to bed for me. I can be extra-creative tomorrow.
Regretfully, the TALES FROM THE FERMI RESOLUTION pre-order store is now CLOSED.
Which just means that if you didn’t do the Kickstarter and want a signed copy of TALES FROM THE FERMI RESOLUTION (or any of my other books), you’ll just have to buy a print book from Amazon and track me down at a convention, when we start having those again. Or wait until the next Kickstarter. I do need to work out how to sell copies directly, but unfortunately I’m still two or three books away from the daily sales needed to justify the effort.
Book of the Week: Balefires.
The DIABLO II: RESURRECTED announcement trailer.
Oh, geez. I’m going to end up getting this, huh?
I played a LOT of Diablo II, back in the day. The long, long ago day. My go-to class was Necromancer, because I liked fighting in groups – but I wasn’t an evil necromancer. I was totally about saving all the people and the kittens and the pretty flowers and everything. It was just that… well, if you weren’t using that corpse for anything, I sort of needed it right now.
So I am Officially Interested.
